Writing very fat fantasy at the moment, so of course this caught my eye. The
man is very interesting on many points. Liked this especially:
"Frankly, I think the half-arsed critical vocabulary of "genre", where, over
half a century since the emergence of the field, we still can barely
distinguish a marketing category and an aesthetic form, is largely to blame
for the incessant eruptions of snobbery and inverse snobbery that drive
those divisions, the inferiority complexes and compensatory arrogance that
lead us to deny the actualities of the aesthetics while simultaneously
advocating them as absolutes. And I think those divisions are the *
overwhelming* reason why "genre" loses good writers to the "mainstream"
where they can publish their strange fiction in peace without any of the
bullshit about whether it's "proper" Fantasy or "proper" SF. As long as that
process carries on, "genre" will become increasingly *less* where the
action's at and more where the action *could have been*... if it wasn't for
the philsophers and the philistines."
Too right. Reminds me that I must read Vellum...
On 3/7/07, meikamonagmail <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> for those looking for a break from hockey try the bloggery on fat
> fantasy and strange fiction...
>
> http://notesfromthegeekshow.blogspot.com/
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> quite long posts, but I then am thinking lyrical novel length poems,
> a biblical schedule for worldbuilding, perhaps written in pantoums
>
> another life, another time
>
> meika
> http://meika.loofs-samorzewski.com
>
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